Edwards added that the advent of social media has changed things a lot, adding: “When I started out trying to be a TV presenter, I had no means of filming myself. So you’d pretty much just go in and meet people and say, ‘Well, I think I would be good at this’.

“Whereas now obviously you can film stuff, to a pretty high quality, yourself, on your phone, upload it, see if people like it and that’s really helpful.

“But at the same time, I don’t know where that necessarily leads, because I think that there is a difference between being a YouTuber (and a presenter).

“I think what they do is similar to presenting but it isn’t presenting. I couldn’t do what they do, it’s very natural, very honest, very open, really good communicators, but it isn’t the same as presenting.

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“I think there was a time I imagined that all of the new presenters would be YouTubers but that hasn’t really happened. And I think it’s because they’re different skill sets.”

Edwards said he is still in touch with his friends and colleagues from his T4 days, saying he was about to meet Miquita Oliver.

Edwards is still friends with Miquita Oliver (Peter Byrne/PA)

He said: “And I still see Alexa, although she’s all over the place all of the time. I think I’m seeing her in the next couple of weeks.

“I used to see Steve (Jones) more before he started doing Formula One, but now he’s just never in the country.

“So haven’t seen him for a while, but would like to – me and Miquita and Steve used to go out and play pool together quite a lot.

“And I still see Grimmy and Matt, so kind of stayed in touch with everyone really.”

Edwards’s quiz show Impossible will soon return with celebrity contestants, including Gregg Wallace and Debbie McGee, and he said: “I really love the show, I love the format, I think it really works and it makes sense that it would work with celebrities.

“You don’t quite know, but I think it really did. And it was fun doing it with celebrities. They’re sort of a nightmare, when you’ve got 18 of them, trying to wrangle them all. But it’s worth it.”